Fiona Kinniburgh is a research associate in the Chair of Environmental and Climate Policy at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Combining perspectives from political science and science and technology studies, her work broadly examines the roles of science and public policies in enabling deep societal transformations towards sustainability. Her ongoing doctoral research analyzes multi-level governance of transitions to sustainable agri-food systems and the role of expertise in policy processes, focusing on efforts to reduce or discontinue pesticide use at the international level and in the EU.

Prior to joining TUM, she worked on agricultural and biodiversity policy at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) in Paris. At IDDRI she investigated the achievements and limitations of domestic measures to sustain biological diversity in five countries to inform the preparation of the post-2020 framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity. She received her bachelor’s degree in sustainable development from Columbia University and her master’s in environmental policy from Science Po’s Paris School of International Affairs.